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THE BOOK OF<br/>
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CHAPTER 9
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Job acknowledges the justice and greatness of God, and concludes that man cannot contend against him.
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Then</span> Job answered and said,
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I know <i>it is</i> so of a truth: but how should man be just <sup>a</sup><a href="job/9/2a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE before.">with</a> God?
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If he will <sup>a</sup><a href="job/9/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Eccl. 6: 10; Isa. 45: 9; Ether 4: 8.">contend</a> with him, he cannot answer him <sup>b</sup><a href="job/9/3b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR one time in.">one</a> of a thousand.
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<i>He is</i> wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath <sup>a</sup><a href="job/9/4a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Hardheartedness.">hardened</a> <i>himself</i> against him, and hath prospered?
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<sup>a</sup><a href="job/9/5a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR Who.">Which</a> removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.
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Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
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Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and <sup>a</sup><a href="job/9/7a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE from shining.">sealeth</a> up the stars.
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Which alone <sup>a</sup><a href="job/9/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 104: 2; Isa. 40: 22; 2 Ne. 8: 13.">spreadeth</a> out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.
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Which maketh Arcturus, <sup>a</sup><a href="job/9/9a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Astronomy.">Orion</a>, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.
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Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.
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Lo, he goeth by me, and I see <i>him</i> not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.
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Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him?  who will say unto him, What <sup>a</sup><a href="job/9/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Rom. 9: 20 (20-21); Moses 1: 4.">doest</a> thou?
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<i>If</i> God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.
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How much less shall I answer him, <i>and</i> choose out my words <i>to reason</i> with him?
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Whom, though I were righteous, <i>yet</i> would I not answer, <i>but</i> I would make supplication <sup>a</sup><a href="job/9/15a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR before my accuser.">to</a> my judge.
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If I had called, and he had answered me; <i>yet</i> would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.
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For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.
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He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.
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If <i>I speak</i> of strength, lo, <i>he is</i> strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time <i>to plead?</i>
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If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: <i>if I say,</i> I <i>am </i>perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
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<i>Though </i>I <i>were </i>perfect, <sup>a</sup><a href="job/9/21a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB I regard not my, self."><i>yet</i></a> would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
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This <i>is</i> one <i>thing,</i> therefore I said <i>it,</i> He <sup>a</sup><a href="job/9/22a" mark="a" type="A" title="Mal. 3: 14 (14-18).">destroyeth</a> the perfect and the wicked.
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If the scourge slay suddenly, he will <sup>a</sup><a href="job/9/23a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB mock.">laugh</a> at the trial of the innocent.
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The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof, if not, where, <i>and</i> who <i>is</i> he?
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Now my days are swifter than a <sup>a</sup><a href="job/9/25a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB runner.">post</a>: they flee away, they see no good.
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They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle <i>that</i> hasteth to the prey.
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If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort <i>myself:</i>
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I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
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<i>If</i> I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
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If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
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Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
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For <i>he is</i> not a man, as I <i>am, that</i> I should answer him, <i>and</i> we should come together in judgment.
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Neither is there any <sup>a</sup><a href="job/9/33a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR arbiter between.">daysman</a> betwixt us, <i>that</i> might lay his hand upon us both.
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Let him take his rod away from me, and let not <sup>a</sup><a href="job/9/34a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB the dread of him.">his</a> fear terrify me:
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<i>Then</i> would I speak, and not fear him; but <i>it is</i> not so with me.
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